Inspiring Travel Writing from Chris Moss
Born in Lancashire, Chris Moss lived in Buenos Aires from 1991 to 2001, working as a teacher and as an arts/music and travel writer for the Buenos Aires Herald. He regularly contributes travel features to the Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Conde Nast Traveller and is co-editor of the Time Out Buenos Aires and Patagonia guides. He is also a music writer, specialising in tango and other Latin American rhythms, and reviews and compiles world music CDs. He is currently writing a literary history of Patagonia to be published by Signal Books/OUP. He is the editor of the Time Out guide to Beijing and the forthcoming Time Out Flight Free Europe guide.
Articles by Chris Moss
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Tangopolis
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Chris Moss
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Argentina
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Buenos Aires and the Pampas
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Buenos Aires
Paradise is a dimly lit dance hall in San Telmo, Buenos Aires’ oldest barrio. In front of me is a bottle of rough, deep red Malbec that cost about five pesos (less than a pound) and, drunk on romance and melancholy, I’m lost in a tango blur. Beyond...
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La Vida Roja
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Chris Moss
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Argentina
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Mendoza and winelands
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Mendoza
At Mendoza bus station, there are two types of tourist. The first and, from my vantage point, the most heroic, are lean, intrepid backpackers bound for Cerro Aconcagua - at 6,960 metres (22,834 feet), the “roof of the Americas” and the highest peak...
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Taking a Punta
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Chris Moss
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Uruguay
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Punta Del Este Region
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Punta del Este
Imagine a town off the beaten, budget, backpacker or any other kind of track that melds the languorous sensuality of Brazil, the all-day sunshine of Cancún and the Europhile sophistication of downtown Buenos Aires. Throw in barbecued beef...
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Oops, There Goes Another Bit of Britain
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Chris Moss
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United Kingdom
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Midlands
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Derbyshire
Driving along the A6, it’s not immediately obvious that the Peak District might well be England’s most important national park. In fact, it’s easy to forget you’re in a park at all - there are plenty of pretty towns and old farms lining the river...
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Flit Lit
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Chris Moss
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Argentina
Travel writing is going the way of the telly: it's all about personality, or at least personal narratives, rather than place. Add to this dubious trend the bloated value of British homes, and it's no wonder our bookshops are piled with paperbacks in...
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Basque in Glory
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Chris Moss
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Spain
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Basque Country
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San Sebastian
Perhaps it's the impenetrable Euskara language that has deterred weekenders and party people from taking no-frills flights to San Sebastián instead of, say, Barcelona. Or maybe it's the unknown quantity of Basque culture, and the fact that...
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The Other Inca Trail
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Chris Moss
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Peru
'Mula, carajo, mula!" is what Peruvian muleteers shout to drive their beasts up and down the Andean mountains of the Vilcabamba region. No English expression quite captures the fricative force of "carajo", but "damn you, mule" is about right. For a...
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Drink in the Pure Gold of Hungary
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Chris Moss
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Hungary
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other regions of Hungary
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Tokaj-Hegyalja
'I think I'd like to be embalmed in Tokaj," moaned Bridget, who was sitting to my right. We'd been in Hungary all of two hours and were dining (and more importantly drinking) in Gundel, Budapest's grandest restaurant. Having ooh'd and ahh'd our way...
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Gap Year Guerrilla
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Chris Moss
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Argentina
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Argentine Lakes
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San Carlos de Bariloche
Setting out on their gap year odysseys to Latin America, it’s unlikely students bother to glance up at the scarlet and black posters of “Che” Guevara stapled on their chimney breasts. They may identify with the handsome Argentine for his romantic...
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Shepherd's Delight
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Chris Moss
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Greece
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Mainland Greece
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Zagoria
Outside the village of Monodendri, in the heart of the Zagoria region, you can walk along a precipitous ledge above the gorge and peer across to where the horizon is cracked open, or look down into the abyss. In autumn, the ever-present drama of...